Wealth Creation

June 11, 2013

"Life is denied by lack of attention,
whether it be to cleaning windows or
trying to write a masterpiece."

~ Nadia Boulanger

We pay
attention.

The
word "pay" is most important in the phrase, we pay attention.It means that we invest.

We
invest attention into various things. The
things we pay the most attention to flourish.

A
friend of mine has a family feud going on right now. He is paying a lot of
attention to it. So it is flourishing.

A
client of mine is writing her first book. She is finding that the more
attention she pays to it, the better the book gets.

I must
remember to remind myself each day not to fall asleep to this formula.

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We have
taken a hundred dollars off the price for the Wealth Warrior Movement
membership due to its growing popularity and swelling ranks.... some of our most
luminous members like Brian Johnson and Michael Neill have done webinar
interviews with us that simply change lives....also, if you join now, go back
into the archives and listen to my interview with Carolyn Freyer-Jones on the
subject of the prosperous woman. Very eye-opening.

As Brian says, "Isn't
it a bit odd that we went from science to math to history but somehow missed
the class on how to live?"

We could always just
wring our hands and curse the educational system. But Brian has a better
solution. Why not just provide that missing piece? Why not create email messages
and cool YouTube dramatizations of the best philosophy and positive psychology
in the world for everyone to learn and use? He has done that. His work is
mind-blowingly thorough and easy to grasp.

In my wealth warrior
inner circle members listen as I interview a new dynamic hot thinker each month
on the subject of wealth and creativity... it costs a membership fee to be in
that group, so I don't share the webinars. Or at least I usually don't.

But this once, I am
going to. Because this one was so extraordinary and inspiring and game-changing
and life-changing for people in the group that they are sending it all
around the world and the internet ... so here it is for you: Loving
What You Do with Steve Chandler and Brian Johnson

....and here is a recent
message from Brian and En*Theos:

ENJOY| by Brian Johnson

"This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to
have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to
live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think
about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where
one does not give joy."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

I absolutely love that.

Imagine a life in
which we seek to GIVE joy.

A life in which we
enter relationships to GIVE joy. A life in which we work to GIVE joy.

Can you even imagine
how much we would ENjoy that?!!? Stunning... To giving full expression to the
highest within us!!

September 19, 2012

(Once, a few years ago,
I sent this quote to someone who was STUCK in passivity, career-wise, and this
quote alone completely changed his life):

"As a man's real
power grows;and his knowledge widens,
ever the way he can
follow grows narrower:until at last he chooses
nothing,but does only and wholly
what he must do."

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One day it hit me that I
wanted to help people become self-reliant and create wealth for themselves and
their families. It wasn't exactly a choice. I had just finished Time Warrior
and was enjoying the response to that book, and the break between books.

A year passed and my
publisher was ready for a sequel. My original idea for the sequel was Catch
Fire, yet another book about motivating yourself. Then I asked a trusted
friend and mentor about what ought to be next. What do people care the most
about? What's even more vital than becoming a warrior around managing one's time?

"Money," my
friend said. "People want to know how to make money. That's even more
important to them."

It hit me like a
thunderbolt and it was beyond choice. It chose me. I whispered to
myself, "wealth warrior."

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something for you from
Wealth Warrior:

This kind of "service" does not pass the giggle test

When I say the word "service," what
do you think of?

If you are leaning
toward warrior, then I know you are not thinking of "public service."

Often people think of
politicians who have been in the government for long periods of time—senators, congressmen,
people like that—as being somewhat heroic for spending their lives "in
public service."

We see tributes and very
expensive dinners featuring toasts to these politicians who have "given
their lives over to public service" as if it was a tremendous sacrifice on
their part.

This whole "public
service" idea has inflicted confusion upon the word "service" in
the worst possible way.

Because this senator
(Republican or Democrat, doesn't usually matter) sitting there being toasted
and roasted is someone who has lived a lifestyle of deal-making and good-old-boy
favor-trading while never having to pay for anything. He is being chauffeured
and flown around the world like the king of Brunai on government money.

Not his money.

He has a huge staff
running around doing work for him so even if he has to sit in a committee
hearing, you can see the staff around him buzzing like bees—a staff of people
who have done all the real preparation for that meeting.

So, where's the
"service" they are all talking about?

Not only does this
"public servant" live off other people's money and do no work of his
own, this same public beneficiary gets rich, and receives huge speaking fees.
When he comes into office, his net worth is x and when he leaves office it's 100
times x—how did that occur?

Service!

Really?

No. Some company he did
a political (financial) favor for is now going to have him come speak for
$50,000 at their big dinner.

When presidents come
into office without a lot of money and leave multi-millionaires, even though
their presidential salary was not all that big, we have to wonder about the
term "public service."

It's a mockery.

It's hilariously
mislabeled.

It hardly represents a
service to the public.

This is one of the
reasons it's sometimes hard with clients of mine to have them understand that
the source of all wealth is service.

Because they hear terms
like "public service" and "a life of service" about these
people that they know are not serving.

They know that these
people are actually being waited on hand and foot.

While performing
"public service" from the back of a limo.

It's a tremendous
disservice to so tarnish this glorious word.

Part of seeing the
source of wealth for you and for me is to clean that word up and give it a
fresh new understanding so that it really means something. It really means
helping someone else, assisting another person, and delivering actual value.

Politicians are not
public servants. We just all call them that because we've fallen asleep.

It's like the hotel
operator said to me this morning. This is your wake up call.

August 22, 2012

Also, some of you wanted me to repeat this quote
from the great spiritual philosopher Thomas Merton, and
thanks for asking me to repeat it because I enjoy repeating it to
myself especially when I catch myself living out of lazy habits:

"The biggest human
temptation

is to settle for too
little."

~ Thomas Merton

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“Wealth results
from creativity and service. Only always. This gold nugget encapsulates the
essence of Wealth Warrior. Steve Chandler has written dozens of life changing
books and Wealth Warrior is his best yet. It is as if his entire writing and
coaching career is converging in this book. In the midst of all of the
political handwringing about creating jobs, Steve Chandler gets to the heart of
where and how wealth and prosperity is really created – in the mind. If you
want to keep waiting for someone else to rescue you, skip this book. But if you
are ready to take charge of your own wealth creation, get this book now.”

August 10, 2012

Many coaching clients that I work with think there are things in the way of their success. Inner character flaws, outer circumstances. Two strikes against them!

So they don't take action or experiment with life.

There's a lot of fear, there's a lot of placidity, there's a lot of regret. There's a lot of disappointment in life.

There's a really big sense that "My life isn't working for me."

Now notice that you've probably never heard a child say to you: "My life isn't working for me."

I mean that would be in a funny Peanuts cartoon or something like that; but a real child is testing, trying, failing, exuberantly living life (it's a form of testing everything).

"How do I get that back?" my client asked me last week.

"You don't GET it back like you get a gift on your birthday. YOU TAKE IT BACK!"

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FROM THE BACK COVER:

In his liveliest and most entertaining book to date, Steve Chandler boldly takes on the entitled victim mindset with a series of warrior principles and stories to fire up even the most cynical soul.

With heartbreaking biographical honesty, Chandler tells his own story of underachievement, alcoholism, bankruptcy and shame. Then, in the encouraging spirit of "If I can do this anybody can," he gives us all the turnaround inspirations that converted him from wealth worrier to wealth warrior.

"I just joined the Wealth Warrior Movement and I am amazed at the depth of the content Steve is providing. I have been listening to the new wealth warrior audios over and over and finding new, powerful distinctions every time I listen. I can't wait for the wealth webinars to begin! I am finally ready to create my own wealth breakthroughs!"

August 01, 2012

People think, "Oh, it's all a mind game and how clever you are, whether you can outwit the market."

That's not really true.

It's your own level of energy and service and strength that works. The body often goes first and leads the mind; and people often increase their wealth when they increase their physical activity.

They may be training for an Iron Man or they start working out or they start doing Yoga or they start running, or dancing or doing something. They find that the brain wakes up to the degree that the body does. So it's so important to have a physical aspect.

A lot of people would think, "Well wait a minute that physical goal of yours, wouldn't that take a lot of time when you should be focusing on making money. Wouldn't that take time away?"

But actually it doesn't.

Actually it produces more energy.

It produces a greater ability to focus, more mental alertness and greater well being--a greater sense of good move and good spirits and lively spirits that happen after you have gone for a good run or a swim or played a game of basketball. Your mind is actually in better shape to serve and create the relationships you want that will lead you to make money.

So when I want to make the shift from worrying, fearing, being paranoid, doubtful---------I want to make that shift up to warrior and I want to go to war (the spirit of going to war), and I want to look at the thoughts that are making me worry. Those are just thoughts (that's all those are) and I want to take a very deep breath, do what I need to do. Hit the punching bag, run around the block, jump in the pool and get right out, breathe deeply, sing a song, and then start brand new and say "I'm going to use my imagination now to brainstorm my next actions for creating prosperity and I want to clean off my whiteboard (one of my whiteboards anyway) and start throwing ideas up there--next action, next action, next action and then circling one and then doing it."

And that's the warrior mindset and that's what really produces wealth as opposed to dropping down to my lowest mood, believing all my thoughts and worrying. Wealth worrier? No. How about wealth warrior instead?

I want to rise up, I want to go to war, I want to create prosperity.

I want to serve people.

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A 2nd Evening of Stories and Songs Benefit Concert for...Brittany Schramm (Please read her story below)

Join us for an entertaining evening of hilarious, inspiring, insightful stories and songs to go with them that will raise your spirits and leave you feeling like you have just returned from a long, stress-free vacation!Steve Chandler and Andrew McKee will take you on an entertaining journey up the ladder of human consciousness (and if you don't know what this is yet, you have to attend!)

Here's what people said about the 1st Evening of Stories and Songs...

"The music is still running through our minds... and I could hardly sleep for all that really uplifting energy we shared!"

- Marian Sears, Fountain Hills, AZ

"I had the absolute privilege of flying out to Phoenix to see Steve Chandler and Andrew McKee perform their evening of Songs and Stories. From the moment it started, I was completely immersed in this magical musical journey they had prepared for us. The music was absolutely superb. I had the chills, tears streaming down my face, and laughter in abundance. I was so touched by the absolute authenticity of these master performers. They hold nothing back. Their love of life infuses the music with so much energy- it's absolutely contagious! I walked out overflowing with joy. Don't miss these guys, they sing and play straight from the soul."

- Lisa Peake

All in support of Brittany Schramm and her family. Concert Location:

Heritage Academy32 South Center StreetMesa, AZ 85210

Recommended $20 donation but you may contribute as much as you wish. Any donation gets you a seat, but please understand and support the wonderful cause. If you would like to donate to the Silent Auction please contact Lynanne Cottle at bljbsl@yahoo.com or call 480-577-5677.

Seating is limited. If paying at the door, please email Andrew atamckee1711@gmail.com for seat reservations.

(Please note that the PayPal account will show Andrew McKee amckee1711@gmail.com)

THANK YOU!

Brittany's Story

Brittany Schramm was a fun-loving, athletic wife and mother of 2 young children. On April 7th, 2012 she and her husband Jeff decided to head out on their mountain bikes and test out the trails in the popular Red Mountain area near their Mesa home. The day was beautiful and the ride was fun, until tragedy struck. Brittany hit a rock and was launched over her handlebars. She landed on her head cracking both her helmet and 4 bones in her back and neck, instantly paralyzing her from the chest down. She was air-lifted to Scottsdale Osborn hospital where she endured 7 hours of surgery to repair the damage to her spine. Although the surgery was successful, Brittany's spinal cord remained badly bruised. After several days in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit, Brittany was moved to Barrows Neurological Institute to begin her long journey of physical therapy.

Brittany spent 7 weeks at Barrow's learning how to sit-up, roll-over, manage herself in a wheelchair, and generally learn how to handle her now paralyzed body. The days were long, and the therapy was often grueling, but Brittany remained strong and determined to learn as much as she could.

Brittany is now home with her family and is adjusting to life as a paraplegic. She is beginning to regain feeling in lower portions of her body and is optimistic that she will walk again. She is now faced with a new challenge. Her insurance plan offers no provisions for outpatient physical therapy, which means that for Brittany to continue therapy she will have to pay cash. Brittany is determined to walk again, with or without professional therapy, but is hopeful that with the proceeds from this concert she will be able to afford some type of therapy. She extends her love and gratitude for the donations already offered and the many prayers in her behalf.

June 28, 2012

Credentials were vital in the old world---the world of my father and mother.

You'd apply for a job and people would say, "Where did you get your degree?" or "What's your degree in?"

"Alcoholism," I would say. "Bankruptcy and divorce."

And you know what? They didn't care.

Oh, they weren't exactly happy with my credentials. But they moved quickly to the next question-the question they really wanted to ask----"Can you help us?"

Yes, I think so, or at least let's do a pilot seminar, a trial workshop and find out. I ended up training more than 20 Fortune 500 companies that way and a couple hundred smaller businesses, schools and organizations.

Not because of my credentials. But because I could help. I could serve.

That's good news for all of us today. It's no longer who you know or what your credentials are, now it's WHAT YOU CAN DO!

This allows you to build your skills and deepen your professional strength any way you like. It's all online now. What do you want to learn how to do? It's all right there.

A woman client told me not long ago in subdued, breathy tones (the kind of voice reserved for the most sacred stories of suffering and victimization, stories that have formed the helpless robot), "I am sad that I never had the education that I should have had. Not being given that educational advantage, my ability to get a high-paying job has been limited."

And I could hear the hushed reverence in her voice as she described the tenets of her victim religion. It was deeply personal for her, and the fact that she was "sharing" her weakness with me was an example of how "authentic" she had learned to be.

Except for one little thing. One flaw in the presentation: it was all nonsense. She could have learned anything any time including now. This now, yes. This very minute inside this very day today.

People hire you today because of what you can do.

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Why not think big??

So if the Coaching Prosperity School was a success, as it was, why not think bigger? Why not always keep thinking bigger? Not out of greed, but out of keeping my brain alive, active and growing?

Almost a physical thing. Fending off dementia by practicing the discipline of thinking big. Like an entrepreneur thinks.

So how about the All of Humanity Prosperity School? It expands the target market dramatically. And it eliminates a lot of the pacing and cursing and worrying I had been doing.

Remember, that one of the guiding principles of wealth creation is not to worry. And the best way not to worry is to have a project you are engaged in. Without a project, you descend into worry. Your "project" becomes worrying. The mind has to spin somewhere, and if it can't gear into a creative project it will look outward and worry about other people and the world at large.

As I was. Worrying about political matters and the recession and the depression.

Are you part of humanity? Doesn't feel like you are at the moment? Not a group you'd like to be associated with?

So why am I even saying all this (risk all!)? This shouldn't be inside a blog, this should be outside as an ad, (I'll put it there, too!)

Because we have become afraid to sell and communicate our value. All of us. So why say that in a blog and then be afraid in that same blog to do it?

Remember the doctor in the village. The doctor was shy and unassuming. He didn't want people to think of him in a certain way, so he kept to himself and a little girl died whom he could have saved.

Maybe I could save someone, too.

Maybe someone does better with audio than with books and I had a program with lots of webinars and audio programs about how to create wealth but I was too afraid to mention it inside my blog because of what people would think. I would be like the doctor.

Plenty of people don't read these days. They don't like it. But they listen. They listen in their cars, they listen on the treadmill at the gym, they listen on a walk through the woods. They listen in bed at night. That's why I make so much audio. My clients use the audio.

My next audio is going to be about the doctor's fear of self-promotion. It's related to an earlier audio I made on PLEASING vs. SERVING. How we confuse the two. How we stay broke because we confuse the two. How our communications and bad time management are focused on pleasing people and winning their approval instead of serving people and receiving payments for the service.

My next program will be about your SOCIAL SELF vs. your PROFESSIONAL SELF.

We sure know how to socialize and relate to society. We have been trained in that 24/7 since we were children.

"Be good!" Mother used to say. "Thank your Grandma," Father would command. All day long we were trained to develop that social self so that it could be consistently pleasing.

But things go wrong when we are older. We give away too much in negotiation. We become horribly weak and impotent at self-promotion. Worse, we believe self-promotion is immoral. Disgusting, even.

"Don't brag!" Father used to say. "Don't look so conceited."

Telling the village that you were a doctor and a very qualified one would have gone against all your years of training and programming.

Talking about audio programs in a blog carries the same taboo: "Right there he entered the sleaze zone! His credibility was lost right there. Previously I had seen him as an altruistic man, out to heal the planet's poverty, but talking about his audios showed me who he really was. He is Satan."

But how can you (yes, you, from now on I'm talking about your self-promotion, not mine)…how can you help anyone with your product or service if they don't know about it? How can you do something for someone (serve them) if they don't know what you can do?

Let people know who you are and what you can do. If you are a personal trainer, everyone should know. If you have a blog you are writing why hide that? If you are the best receptionist your company has ever had why not let that person at the party who said she was just named president of a local company-why not let her know that you are a great receptionist? In case she is ever looking for one. How else can you really serve her? By staying inside your cottage like the doctor while the screams echo through the night?

This was a huge hurdle in the journey toward making money-for me and my clients. Recognizing how that humble social self kicks in automatically throughout the day. That sweet, unassuming, self-deprecating SS [social self] interacts with everyone who communicates.

In the old days your name would tell people what you did. John the carpenter, soon just became John Carpenter. Steve the chandler (maker of candles) soon became Steve Chandler. The moment John Carpenter was introduced, the person could say, "Can you come fix my roof? I'll give you six chickens." It was a world where your skill or service was who you were.

It still is.

No wait it's not. Today how good we are at sucking up to people is who we are. John Apple Polisher. Steve Bootlicker. Suzy Teacher's Pet.

The great philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Society is a conspiracy against the manhood of each of its members."

And his old school definition of "manhood" applies to women too, today, because it means "strong, independent, free-thinking individuals." Someone who lives guided by inner (freely chosen) principles instead of outer people to please all day.

The All of Humanity Prosperity School. ______________________________________________________________

How your social self is devastating to your income. ______________________________________________________________

The TRUTH is we CAN create great wealth, and the LIE is that we are powerless and unskilled in the area of money.......

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When I wrote The 17 Lies, I was writing about clients I had.

It was really interesting to me that clients (coaching clients) I had, who sat down to work with me, really wanted to have a better life and wanted to make more money and wanted to succeed more or have better relationships-whatever their project was.

But the first thing we had to get out of the way is how they were disconnected from reality.

In other words, when they weren't really living in the real world---and I mean the real world in a positive, wonderful, kind way---when they weren't appreciating how the world was lining up to really help them with their project.

When they weren't appreciating how the world was actually lined up to help them with their wealth project, we would have to take away the lies that disconnected them from the real world.

In other words, they were telling themselves things that weren't true and because they weren't true, they were very confused and out of alignment with what was possible.

So, for example, let's say I tell myself that Mexico is to the north of me and here I am in Arizona and I want to go to Mexico and I tell myself Mexico is up north, to get to Mexico I need to head north and I start driving that direction.

Now that's not really true that Mexico is north of me and because it's not true, all the things I try to do are going to fail.

In other words, my goal of getting to Mexico is not going to work out for me because my basic belief that it's to the north is incorrect. I keep telling myself it's to the north, but it's incorrect.

I had clients who kept telling themselves things that weren't really true.

And because they were doing this, they were disconnected from their real power, their real strength, and their real resources.

So my first job in coaching people was to help them see how the world really worked and how they were lying to themselves.

I use the word 'lie' because it's the opposite of the truth, but "lie" kind of suggests that you are doing this deliberately, trying to sabotage yourself, afraid of success and all that.

That's not really true, it's just confusion; and I used the word 'lie' because it was really dramatic (you know, you try to write a book that has some drama so it will sell). Fortunately for me this book has sold quite well and I've been very happy with it and so many people over the years have come back to me either through e-mail or letters or calling (leaving a message) telling me this book has meant a lot to them because they found in reading it that they themselves were telling these lies.

The beautiful thing about these lies is once you can really see them, they are no longer your internal belief system so they no longer run you-they no longer drive your life with all this mis-perception.

Notice what happens when you believe (for example) that Canada is to the south of you. You now head south hoping to get to Canada and (oh my goodness) you're not in Canada at all.

So this is why the lies must be dealt with.

These 17 lies were the ones that my clients told me the most often and the ones I really had to work with because I found them in my own life. In other words, these were lies (these 17) that kept my own life totally stuck for many years, spinning my wheels---confused, not succeeding, not achieving, and certainly not knowing how to create wealth.

I mean for years and years I had no clue.

I had no strength in that area, I didn't know how to apply my imagination to it, so I was really lost when it came to making money. And this all got turned around (fortunately for me) and what I would like to do now is turn it around for anyone willing to join my Wealth Warrior group and receive the teaching. Not just teaching. Inspiration too. And motivation. And wake up calls.

Lie # 1 is: It's who you know.

In other words, all power is outside of me, only other people can grant me success; and knowing the right people or knowing enough people is the key to me being successful.

This is a carryover from childhood where we are programmed to see that our guardians- whoever they are, the two parents, or two guardians, the adults running our lives when we are kids-----that these people have all the power and in order to get what I want whether it's food, or money for candy, or baseball cards, or money for video games-whatever it is, I have to please these people outside of me.

So I'm now conditioned going into adulthood to believe it's just who you know.

When I coach people they've got all these things going on that are designed to have them know more people.

They've got marketing things going on, they've got branding and niche things going on, and they've got all sort of ways to get out there and network and meet more people, and they think somehow if they meet enough of the right people, that alone will put them in a better position to make money.

This really is not true.

Because your success when it comes to creating wealth is not about who you know.

It's about what you do. How you serve. That's the key to your success.

So, if you create something wonderful and beautiful---whether it's an iPad or a bestselling book or a bakery shop or a service coaching people---anything in the world, it's what you do.

It's how you serve that brings you wealth because these people---the people who you thought were the most important in the world---will tell other people about you.

So it's not just who you know.

All this obsession with getting other people to be impressed with me, and won over by me, and thinking it's a numbers' game, is folly. That's not really it. What I want to do instead is serve people so well that they tell people and those other people come for my product or my service.

And that's the key to creating wealth.

Therefore I've got to get this thing called IT'S WHO YOU KNOW out of my system because I waste so much time, connecting, connecting, connecting on Facebook, e-mail (whatever is the latest-by the time this blog comes out there will be new things and Facebook will sound laughable like My Space or 8-track tapes).

I don't care, the principle will always be the same.

It's not who you know, it's what you can do; and not only what you can do, but what you DO do. What you actually do each day to serve other people. That's the key to creating wealth.

May 29, 2012

If I give myself the task of learning totrust the abundance of the universe, I have given myself trouble.

(If the universe is abundant, I can either notice it or not. I can celebrate it or deny it. But I won't have to trust it, ever. Because it either is or it isn't.)

My tests show that it is.

But I never used to trust it.

So I never engaged the abundance, I just wrestled with the mind-made scarcity that my thoughts created.

Once I gave myself the task of trusting, (and because the task was not possible to achieve) I never fully trusted the abundance of the universe. Because I'd given myself an impossible job to do prior to interacting with people, exchanging value and creating wealth.

Why would I want to place an impossible task between me and creating wealth? Why not just go directly to the activity of creating wealth? (Because I thought I had to trust it. Somehow I feared making the effort in vain.)

Trusting is that impossible task that you put between yourself and doing something worthwhile. Adults think they have to trust things before making an effort, which is why they often settle for a robotic, "safe," habituated life.

I'm always using the example of a child learning to swim and a child learning to ride a bicycle. When we did that as children we never trusted the bicycle or the water. And if we had had to fully trust that the water would hold us up or fully trust that the bicycle would not tip over, none of us would know how to swim or ride bikes because that job could not be completed.

So, without trusting the water, I got in the water. And without trusting the bike, I got on the bike. And that's how I learned to ride a bike and learned to swim.

So, go do great service and become prosperous like a Samurai wealth warrior without trusting it because trusting is not only an unnecessary job but a hopeless job and really overrated in life as something that needs to occur.

That small scared self in all of us, what some people call the ego, is all about protection.

It's all about keeping a body safe.

It's the result of over-identification with the body.

And, so, it's what Colin Wilson talked about when he wrote so brilliantly about being trapped in left brain consciousness. Is that we are trapped in a very small part of the brain that is there only to keep us safe. So, therefore, we see most outside events as threats.

We see a bad driver as a threat to our well-being. And when somebody doesn't answer our email, we see it as a threat to our financial life or a threat to our career or a threat to our need to be loved and approved of. Money and love! We could lose it all if we're not ever-vigilant! If we don't habituate into the robot.

As Colin Wilson so eloquently describes in Poetry and Mysticism, we form our habits of social safekeeping and turn them over to the robot. The robot drives our car, and does most everything else. (A robot cannot and will not dream, though, which is why most dreams occur at night when we are asleep. Lawrence of Arabia said we ought to beware of someone who dreams during the day, while fully awake. That person will achieve great things.)

Most of the time our robot sees threats where there are no threats.

So, let's say a guy is trying to drive his pregnant wife to the hospital and I see him as a total jerk who's jeopardizing my safety on the highway and I'm flipping him off and I'm honking and yelling obscenities. I am inappropriately dysfunctional in my anger.

This trapped ego is what Seth Godin sometimes calls the "lizard brain," which comes from Robert Bly's wonderful book, Leaping Poetry. The lizard brain is just the amygdala, the survival part of the brain.

But if I recognize that that's where my current threat-based thoughts are coming from and I can be awake to it, I won't get caught up in this flashing anger.

I won't try to justify it. The time and energy it takes to create a good case for justifiable anger is time and energy I could have spent making money. My friend Sam Beckford (my co-author of 100 Ways to Create Wealth) used to flash with anger about conditions in Africa. The drinking water was unfit for humans. Now he has evolved and become enlightened. He puts all that formerly wasted time and energy into creating money. Then he donates the money to groups that build wells in Africa.

Anger is a war you declare on yourself.

That warrior instinct is better turned toward money. I call it being a wealth warrior, but you can call it being a charitable donor and a philanthropist if certain words don't work for you.

People feel flashes of anger because they're coming from the lizard brain but they are so obsessed with being "consistent" and being approved of that they'll add a lot of mental energy to justifying their anger. To really building a case for why they should be angry.

Here's why I'm so upset with you. Let me count the ways. I've been working on this presentation. I've put a lot of days into it. Weeks, even. Sit down. Bring your lawyer maybe. This could be my masterpiece of self-justification.

If you really understood that this flash of anger was an expression of a lower part of you, that's actually a survival-based protective thing, you could learn to let it flare out immediately like a match. Or a flash bulb. (Do they have those anymore?)

See it as a radar system in you that's always looking for threats to your well-being. What's wrong with that? It's built in there to keep you alive! It's not a negative thing.

It only becomes negative when it takes over everything. When it becomes your whole experience of "you." Feelings that need justification.

I prefer living an unjustified life.

The first step is to notice that you don't have to take every little flash of anger and spend the rest of your life justifying it.

That's where people really go wrong. That's where they make themselves dysfunctional and reduce the chance for inner strength to be growing. It's in that ongoing justification: like, the family members who call and say, "Can you believe that Josh didn't even show up at Thanksgiving?" Now all of us are on the phone talking about it. And what this is is an attempt to justify and get support for that feeling of anger that was so uncomfortable.

But when I see it, and I can identify the flash as a passing biological blip, I am all of a sudden using my larger, fuller brain, including the right side of my brain, and the most creative part of me. I can now see that I was misusing my imagination in an effort to justify what the lower brain felt. And this was absolute madness because that part of the brain, the creative imagination, could be creating the wealth and health I wanted. But instead it's caught up in justifying the anger that I feel.

But once I can see this, I've got freedom. First the freedom, then the prosperity.

My dream is that we begin to see this worldwide. I'll do my part, starting with this blog.

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The Making of a Bestseller

Steve Chandler's Authors' Roundtable June 29, Phoenix, Arizona, 8am to 5pm. For published authors (self-published and traditionally published, OR have a finished manuscript that we can read).

How to write your breakout book, instead of simply your "next book."

How to do final edits on your book so that it changes from "a good book" to a bestseller. The writing process.

How to make use of Robert Frost's advice, "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader...No surprise for the author, no surprise for the reader."

Learn why your previous book had no tears and no surprises. Creative marketing and promotion of your book versus standard ineffective promo and marketing activity. Word of mouth marketing for today's world of interconnected "friends."

How to write and promote a bestseller.

This roundtable has limited seating around the table and is hosted by Steve Chandler, author of 32 books, and six bestsellers. Nine hundred dollars. Email to apply:stephendchandler@cs.com